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THH INDEPENDENT
EVJRY AFTERNOON
CuJfiT Telephone 84 J00
Kxoit Bnnlny
At Brito Hall IConia Htrubl
i J TESTA Proprietor and Pub
llehor
5DMUND NOHRIE Editor
V HOIIAOK WBIOHr Assistant
Editor
KcatdliiR in Honolulu
TUESDAY JAN 18 1898
THE lTDlt 18 FLYING
Mr B F Dillingham is at logger
heads with tho Government and ho
is evidently very angry judging
from tho tono of tho letters recoully
published over his signature
There is no method howor in his
display of bad temper and his at
tack on tiie Government does not
come with very good grace from
him Ho refers to this Government
of tho Republic of Hawaii which
prides itself in being the Best Gov
ornment this country evor had and
plumes itself especially upon its
great Gnaucial foresight and ability
but ho forgets to mention that it
was nnt the members of Mr Doles
Government but Mr Dillingham
and bis noisy nliquo who dubbed
tho present administration the best
Government
Mr Dillingham deserves all possi
ble credit for his ontorpriso There
are other mon however who have
done as much if not more to de
velop the resources of those islands
but who aro not being advertised
on tho same liberal scale as the
gontloman is who now is howling
and roaring bocauso his ox is bbing
gored
It would have been better form
and shown more taot on the part of
Mr Dillingham to have pigeon
holed his latest public ebullition in
which he condomns and threatens
tho present Government whilo tho
case hetweou the O 11 L Co and
the People is sub judice Ho has
seen fit to rush into priut and he
makes certain statements which aro
misleading and incorrect
Why does not Mr Dillingham re
fer to the report of the spocial com
mittee appointed in 1890 to investi
gate the title of the waterfront land
transferred by Mr Thurston in 1887
and 1888 on behalf of the Govern
mont to tho O It L Co Before
that committee appeared experts
like Captains Fuller Shepard Tripp
and others familiar with the de
mands and conditions of the harbor
and tho report submitted to tho
Legislature was advorso to tho O
It L Co as tho reports stipulated
under the contract and agreement
of 1888 had not beeu filed with tho
Interior Office as provided
We admit that it would havobeou
bettor if tho Government at that
time had taken possession of tho
lands now in dispute instead of al
lowing the railroad company to in
cur further expenses and make
plans for tho future as holdors of
tho property
Mr Dillingham calls attention to
the fact that ho has developed
through his enterprise somo of tho
biggest plantations in tho islands
If ho has done so wo presumo that
ho and his company havo boon paid
for their work If not he is not as
shrewd as ho pretends to be and wo
can apprehend his rage over tbo
goring of his ox
If our space allows wo will re
publish tho legislative roport of
1800 which may not aB a red rag to
Mr Dillinghams ox or as a wet
towel to himsolf Wo should sur
mise however that he would prefer
no further digging into tho mattor
while tho caso is before the Courts
Mr Dillingham finishes his letter
with the following paragraph
This action on the part of tho
Government N said to be for he
benefit of he people Whit peoplo
pray and in what way has their
wish bton manifested Whore wns
it made manifest that tho people
desired this Government to increase
its wharfage facilities to tho utter
exclusion and elimination of the
rights of this railroad upon Hono
lulu harbor
Tho only people this Govern
ment recognizes aro those who at
the ballot box together with Mr
Dillingham supported the platform
of the American Union Party A
plank in that platform says that nil
wharves aud landings on the islands
should be the properly of tho Gov
ernment That plank has been
inserted in every platform of
every political party during tho
past 15 years and wo have uever
seen any amendment providing for
an exemption for wharvos belonging
to Mr Dilliujlinm and his com
panies
Wh are extremely pleased how
over that Mr Dillingham is going
for the Government cvou if wo do
not think that his point is well taken
hit motives disinterested and pure
aud the time for the attack appro
priate It is amusing to us of
course to watch the fur flyiug of the
Governmental cat and Old Beu
the captain of a Citizens Guard
equad
Wo fully agree with Mr Dilling
ham in tho following remarks ex
tracted from his letter
That tho Government was estab
lished by force and is maintained
largely by the same means should
novor be forgotten Such a Govern
ment never can afford to be a knight
errant to establish its power long
in an unusual and extraordinary
way iu the busiuess lifo of its peo
ple
It is interesting as a study of psy
chology to know just where the
Govrrumont will wiud up in its mad
oareor to ascertain just what meat
our Coaser hath fed upon
It is a sad illustration of the fact
that no man however good or sup
posed y sensible can oxercise un
checked power without abusing it
Such a Government has of neces
sity to be arbitrary iu the oxercise of
its political power It must often
be far less liberal in that line- than it
woud like to lie but such a Gov
ornment m the last one that can
afford to be illiberal iu other ways
and to antagonize tho business in
terests of its people
One would think that the Govern
ment has problems enough on its
hands of necessity without inau
gurating a system of confiscation
aud illiherality that finds its best
counter part in the operation of such
a monopoly as the sugar trut
It may be that this Goverment is
strong Hunugh to continue such an
tics and it may be not
That tho heads of tho Government
aro plainly losing their heads is
manifested from tho way in which
they have conducted their crusade
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Does tho Government wish to
make of itself an example in tho way
of disorder aud disregard of the
Wo ask again upou what meat
dth this our Ciosar feed that ho is
grown so gioatl
Is it not time for tho Government
to rise and explain
Amen II
i iininmima
THE LAW OH TKTJANOY
It is to be hoped that the Legis
lature at its next session will see its
way to amend the laws relating to
compulsory school attendance and
truancy Tho present system is al
together wrong aud tho ollkors de
tailed to enforce tho laws lack dis
cretion aud common sense in tho
highest degree To pick up chil
dren of tender years and lack them
up iu the Police Station is not con
ducive to the improvement of their
morals and their fear of the law If
a boy or girl play truant and will
not listen to the warning of tho of
ficer let them be brought into Court
in tho morning and tho matter
placed before the Magistrate but
do not lock the children up or place
them in tho dook among hardened
criminals aud vile offenders agaiust
tho lowt The truancy law should
be exercised with dffpretinn A few
days ago n native girl whoso nppenr
auco pronouncd her a fullv dev
eloped womati of a very touh
character wai brought before tho
Magistrate charged with truancy
The father of tho girl was also
brought up charged with keeping
tho girl away from school Tho
ovidenco proved that tho girl left
her home every morning and her
father supposed that she wont to
school He had no control over her
at nil Sho wos uearly Id years of
ago and was a bard case according
tho fathers testimony Judge Wil
cox said that he had to follow the
law although he certainly thought
that it would have been better if
the girl had beeu loft alono Uan
forcing her into a public snhool
whore sho would be a menace to her
schoolmate and a nuisanco to the
teachers Tho Marshal on being
asked what he desired to do in tho
matter said that he couldnt ask to
havo tho girl sent to the Reform
atory School where she would be
evMii more of a menace but he sup
posed tho law must bo carried out
aud the girl repiimanded and font
to school Tho Judge agreed
with tho views of tho Marshal
and tho girl was told that sho
must go to school At tho same
time wo devoutly hope that sho will
not do it and that tho truant officer
will leave her severely alono in tho
interest of the respectable children
who fnqunut tho public school
which tho girl refnrrod to is ordered
to attoud The law relating to forc
ed attendance of schools as now
carried out is to our ideas uncon
stitutional Wo believe that parents
and guardians havo the right to
keep the children iu their caro from
attending school for any reasonable
period and for cause which not
necessarily needs be explainod to
any ignorant truant officer We
notice that the officers never at
tempt to euforce the law among the
higher classes It is tho poor
only who fall victims to a system
which undoubtedly is well meant
but badly carried out
KBioro mm
Tho V 8 8 Concord In Port
The U S S Concord Asa Walkor
I commauder arrived in port yester
day forenoon 8J days from San
Francisco On coming to nnchoi
ulougido the Bruiuiugton she rnlut
ed tho Hawaiian flig with the ciif
tomary uumbor of guns Tho Con
cord is almost a sister ship of the
Bennington and Yorktown She
will coal and storo at this port to
leavo for Yokohqma on Monday
next Her commander and officers
are uoarly all strangers to Honolulu
Tho full list of the Concords officers
are as follows
Commander Asa Wnlker Captaii
Leutiinaut Commander 0 P Col
vocornses
Liiitenauts T B Howard and P
W Howrigan
Lieutenant Junior Grade C M
MfOormick
Ensigns LA Kniser W C David
sou H V Butler 0 S Knepper
Chief E igiueer Utnhnrd Innh
Pissoil Assistant Engineer H W
Jones
Assistant Engineer E H Dunn
Ilajori Assistant Paymaster E D
Itvnn
Paused ABsistaut Surgeon It G
Brodrick
Pay Clerk F K Hunt
SECOND SEASON
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COMMENCING -
Saturday Jan 22 1898
New Talent
Interesting Features
General Admission 25o Admission find
Gniriil 8ta d tOn Dozes for pariies of
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Door open 7 p m
Boats on Sain at Wall Nichols
Coiupunp
HUSSKS RUN TO THE GATES
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Timely Topics
Honolulu Jan 17 J8SS
Tin week we iiik tho at
tention of pltmtjtion iigonts
mill owners Hteumcrmen and
all others using steam power
to the ANTI OALORIO
BOILER PLASTER and
STKAM PIPE COVERING
Tor wlii h we have been ap
pointed agents A saving of
20 percent in fuel is guaran
teed by the use of this Cover
ing 100 pounds of this
Plaster will cover 100 nquaro
feet of nu fice one half inch
thick It is the best insulating
compound in the market and
is eiidor id by the nuhern
Pailiu KR Co Pacific Mail
S Co Pacific t oast Under
writers S F San Joaquin
Coal Co Oregon Improve
ment Co and by many others
It is easily put on as the fol
lowing will show
Hawaiian Hardware Company Ltd
Gentlemen We have used ibo
products of the Anti caloric Cost
pant on the boiler of tlm Waiale
nln and havo found them Grst las
aud so easy to tnanipulate that the
services of a plasterer were not nred
ed to make a nat aud substantial
job Yours very truly
A W Keeoh
Supt Eugur I I S N Co
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268 Fort Stueet
STOCK
Bedspreads and Blankets
Lace Curtains Lace Curtains
Imported specially for the Holiday
Trade
A Choice Lots of
LADIES UMBRELLAS LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS
LADIES UNDERWEAR
Just the thins for Xmas Gifts
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New Millinery Flowers and Feathers
An Elegant Display
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Sole Agents for WHEELER WILSOH and DOMESTIC Sewing Maotrioes
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